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Hooray for you new little ones!  Our hatch is complete!  We have 26 chicks in a brooder and I chick still in the incubator drying off.  It was working on getting out yesterday, but didn't make it.  I could see the opening looked dry.  It had "shrink wrapped".  The read out on my bator gets water vapor inside and I couldn't see what the humidity was. Very annoying.  Plus my little ones kept taking out the red plug (had to tape it in).  When we moved the others we could see it's beak and it was still pipping so, I wrapped it in a warm wet rag for a bit and then carefully pealed it.  It is pretty wobbly, but trying to groom, so that's a good sign.  (I hope.)  I had one other start to zip and then stop.  I couldn't detect any signs of life and I had two eggs that didn't pip at all. (They were dark shells and may have never developed.  I wasn't sure about some of them.) Still not a bad hatch   

Hope your hatch continues going well.  

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Originally Posted by Queen of the chickens 

Hooray for you new little ones!  Our hatch is complete!  We have 26 chicks in a brooder and I chick still in the incubator drying off.  It was working on getting out yesterday, but didn't make it.  I could see the opening looked dry.  It had "shrink wrapped".  The read out on my bator gets water vapor inside and I couldn't see what the humidity was. Very annoying.  Plus my little ones kept taking out the red plug (had to tape it in).  When we moved the others we could see it's beak and it was still pipping so, I wrapped it in a warm wet rag for a bit and then carefully pealed it.  It is pretty wobbly, but trying to groom, so that's a good sign.  (I hope.)  I had one other start to zip and then stop.  I couldn't detect any signs of life and I had two eggs that didn't pip at all. (They were dark shells and may have never developed.  I wasn't sure about some of them.) Still not a bad hatch   

 

Hope your hatch continues going well.  

My bad,  I guess I should say the chick got "sticky" as shrink wrapping happens before pipping.  

It was nice to Read these Happy Endings !

I arrived at school at 6:30 this morning and we had one baby chick that hatched over night!!! Almost all the other eggs have pips one is starting to zip, hopefully by tomorrow they will all be hatched.

So three of the six have hatched, but they are knocking around the others pretty bad. Two of them have pips and some movement, one has nothing....Do I take the three out when they are dry or leave them? I am so nervous I am supposed to leave in an hour and won't be able to do anything until morning.

Leave them.  Do not open the incubator while chicks are pipping or they will start to dry out and stick because of the reduced humidity.  If you absolutely have to open it, have a warm spray bottle of water ready and spray the eggs and close as quickly as possible.  Otherwise they are fine for another day or two.  

I got to school today and the very last one had just hatched, all six of the eggs are now baby chicks, my students are way too excited.